By Raïssa Robles

“Ikaw yata yung sumulat against Duterte noon.” (I think you were the one who wrote against Duterte in the past).

It was the first thing presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo blurted when I met him at the e-book launch of Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on the South China Sea last week.

Panelo was the last person I expected to bump into, and I was surprised to see him by his lonesome. Usually, cabinet officials are like magnets in many gatherings I’ve attended. They immediately attract a horde who buzz around them constantly.